When will they get it right?

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Did anyone see the program on SKY today 30/12/08 approx 11:00am
Called Brit Cops or something like.

It was a fly on the wall docmentary about police based in Plymouth and Dartmouth.

One of the urgent calls they had to attend was supposedly a 'flasher' but turned out to be a Diabetic having a bad 'hypo', and was walking the streets near Cattedown Roundabout...😱

No wonder people find treating our condition troublesome as the commentator was heard to say quote: 'Diabetics have to be given something sugary when they have a seizure because their blood sugar is either too high or too low' :(

So remember if you feel Hypo dont forget to do a BG test as it could be High or Low, I dont think so! Ive been diabetic for 32 years and found each time I have a Hypo, guess what my BG is well under 4mmol.

Please Please Please why dont people check their facts before sticking it in programs being broadcast to thousands.🙄

Have a Happy New Year :D
 
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Hi Shaun,
It is the standard advice if in doubt give glucose/sugar.
If high it isn't going to make much dif. Low and it could save a life.
I didn't see the programe as have no TV but suspect it could have been worded a bit better.

Mind you, you were saying about testing and always being low ie below 4 for a hypo test. This is not always the case with other people I have read other peopls accounts of being high when feeling hypo. So it just goes to show how dif everyone is.
 
I agree that the wording could be better, but as Sue says, the standard advice is to give sugar / glucose / jam etc to person with diabetes who is not in a state of normal consciousness.

I don't know the significance of Cattedown Roundabout - or even which town it is in (you mention Plymouth & Dartmouth were covered by the programme). If it's anything like Bigg Market in Newcastle upon Tyne after dark, then being minimally dressed might be considered normal. However, I know enough about how members of the public report incidents to the emergency services to know that "flasher" can be shorthand for anything from "removing an item of clothing" (remember that odd perception of temperature is also a feature of hypothermia, which doesn't just happen in mountains) to "exposing parts of body that should be kept covered in public".
 
I think that there are very few times that I've ever treated a hypo without confirming it first by testing. There are times when I think I'm low and actually it's that I'm hungry because I haven't eaten for a long time. If I treated that then I'd end up high.

Agree that they could have worded the statement better.
 
I garee too the commentary could have been worded better.

I keep a meter at work and one at home. If I am going to be away from either neter for long I either test before I go or take it with me. if I have to test I try to find some place quiet and clean, and a couple of times have walked into resteraunts and saked can I use staff room to test as I need to work out how much medication I need to take to stop me having a hypo. Only one place refused and I wrote to head office explaining why I needed some where clean to test and was it possible to provide their staff with more training.

As a diabetic I try to raise awareness gently so that when things are badly worded there is less likelihood of a misunderstanding...
 
Sue

Please read the statement again about reading Hi or Low it was a sarcastic comment taking the mickey out of the program!!!
Whenever I have been Hypo this has been confirmed by doing a BG test and strangely enough when I am confirmed Hypo I have a low BG level and never a High BG, Im sure that if you speak to any Diabetic Specialist they will tell you the same if in doubt do a BG test and if its High you probably are not having a Hypo. This is also taking into account of misreporting meters and defective strips...:D
 
Shaun

kitemaster said:
Please read the statement again about reading Hi or Low it was a sarcastic comment taking the mickey out of the program!!!
Whenever I have been Hypo this has been confirmed by doing a BG test and strangely enough when I am confirmed Hypo I have a low BG level and never a High BG, Im sure that if you speak to any Diabetic Specialist they will tell you the same if in doubt do a BG test and if its High you probably are not having a Hypo. This is also taking into account of misreporting meters and defective strips...:D
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I think you will find many people have tested thinking they are low or even treated a low! when They thought they were hypo. Only to find they are not low/hypo at all. This is known as a false hypo and is well known in the medical world.
Newly diagnosed diabetics have this problem when they start to bring their blood sugars towards a normal range. This is due to being high for a while so their body feels hypo even though by the meter they are not.
You will also find that someone can feel hypo test and find they have a bs of 8 then 20 mins later they have a crashing low. (This is the bodies advanced warning system)
Even though you haven't been diabetic as long as me you must have been diagnosed before home blood testing came in, so what did you do then? You felt hypo so you ate something! But then were you really hypo? That you will never know 😛
 
Yes Diabetic for 32 years

Hi yes a grand 32 years and hate to say your wrong i had one of the 1st mains powered Blood glucose meters way back then when I was only 13 it was so heavy I could barely lift it. My father had to have a shelf built specifically for it and it took ages to warm up.

Although I have lived most of my life in Plymouth I attended Guys Hospital for most of my Diabetic life and was even placed on the 1st pioneering infusion pump way back when I was only 20.

Sue, I would also like to mention that eveyone is different and their symptoms vary from one to another so why do you keep telling me things that do not apply to me. Did you get your funding for your pump?
 
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my son sometimes looks like if is having a hypo but when i test him is high but is still early for him he is only 5
 
Hypo Vs Hyper

In the weeks before I was diagnosed in Summer 2007, I attended various social events where unbeknown to me people were thinking I'd been drinking before arriving (or arriving sneaky ones after arriving) as after a couple of drinks and food I was (unnoticed by me) "wobbly" and appeared tipsy/drunk. Only after being diagnosed did they start to mention it! Ironically most worked in the medical profession! My diabetes clinic staff say that this was due to being hyperg rather than hypog - which can sometimes give exactly the same symptoms, but not in all of us.
 
Hi RWJ

Yes I can sympathise with you there I had a while ago similar issues that you can get similar symptoms with Hypo and Hyper, confused states etc.

Have a Happy New Year :D
 
Shaun,
Thanks for confirming it wasn't only me!
Having said that, just enjoyed Hogmanay celebrations at home in Scotland, couple of beers and then whisky(s) at the bells (midnight) and lots of nibbles/stovies/chilli etc. Bloods at bed time (3am) 10.2 at waking at 10.30am down to 7.8!
Back to normal diet from today - hopefully!
Happy 2009 to you and all reading this
:D🙂
 
Hypo = low. Hypa = high. Go into coma when high is very dangerous, causes keytoacidocis or something like that.
 
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